Geometric Baby Quilt Pattern

 

I finished this quilt a year ago, and thought it would be a good challenge to make my own quilt pattern for it. I was curious if I could make one using the software I use to draft with at work.

I love the initial stages of figuring out a quilt and letting the fabric talk to you. When I started this particular quilt I had all the fabric bought and the general feel/mood of the quilt decided, I just had to figure out the perfect pattern. I sketched a lot of ideas with the fabric, sitting beautifully folded on the table, waiting for me. I would glance over at the smooth pretty stack for inspriation. Pinterest also helped with inspiration:

 

 

In the end, I decided to use a pattern I saw on an Urban Outfitters quilt, a quilt I fell in love with and ended up buying later, when it went on sale. When it came in the mail I was suprised to see that it wasn't a pieced-together quilt... it was just patterned fabric! For some reason that discovery made me proud that I actually pieced this baby quilt together. And I LOVE how it turned out, I think the colors next to the black and white are stunning.

 

I'm also proud of this pattern I drafted. I think it's easy to understand, will help you know the EXACT amount of fabric you need (which is the trickiest part for me), and the order to sew the squares together. One day I will probably use this pattern again on something... and I will be glad I have it saved.

 

Note: This pattern is for sewing the quilt top portion only. I have NOT included instructions for a border, backing, binding, or actual "quilting", but you can find those instructions anywhere online. 

 

 

 

(for my border and back I used patterened fabric squares which matched the solid colors I used, I had the quilt professionally quilted, and then I hand-bound the sides)

 



CLICK HERE FOR THE PATTERN (.pdf)

 

If you wanted to make a larger queen-sized quilt, you could make four of these "baby quilts" and then sew them together to create your own version of the Kaleidoscope Quilt. With different borders around the sections, the possibilities are endless!

 

TWO QUILT GIVEAWAY!

MAY SHOWERS
JUNE FLOWERS
99 DAYS OF SUMMER!
+ + + + + G I V E A W A Y + + + + +

It seems like it has been raining the entire month of May here in Utah, and I love it. Glancing out the window and seeing the jungle bright green in the backyard, and the happy plants growing has been so good for my soul. I have done some yard work, but mostly I've been doing a lot of spring cleaning and organizing inside, and putting together some quilts. I made two quilts for a friend who is having twin boys this summer, and then, since it hasn't stopped raining, I pulled out all of my floral fabric and started cutting and piecing a fun floral patchwork quilt. I was surprised I had enough fabric to make two quilts and then I decided that I would like these funky quilts to have a loving home so I'm giving them away!

I call them my MAY SHOWERS JUNE FLOWERS quilts, since they are inspired by late spring rain. I think any proper mountain woman is going to love these quilts, they are turning out really beautiful and funky. These TWO quilts will go to ONE lucky winner. The winner can keep both quilts, or keep one and give one to a deserving friend, or give both away - it's up to you, if you win!

To enter the giveaway you can do one of three things, or all of them for triple entries:

1. visit my instagram feed and follow the giveaway directions there

2. sign up for my monthly newsletter, located on the sidebar of this blog

*bonus entry for blog readers only*

3. comment on this blog post and tell me what our favorite flower is

Contest closes Friday night, and the winner will be announced on Saturday!

Good luck y'all, and be sure to follow the instagram account for the first sneak peak of the finished quilt tops!

Peace and pine trees,

Whitney

Geometric Baby Quilt

I am happy to report that this pretty baby quilt is finally bound and finished!

When my good friend Anne told me the exciting news that she was expecting, we immediately made plans to make her a baby quilt! I love Anne's style, and I wanted to make something that captured that and her baby-dreams perfectly. We met at my favorite fabric shop and I asked her to pick out the fabric... she picked out THE BEST funky-girlie colors and told me she pictured something geometric, and then let me design it from there.

It was a happy puzzle that took me some time to create, and I love how it turned out.

Quilt Updates

My good friend Mary and her husband just welcomed in their first baby to their home... a sweet baby girl named Tilly Joy. Well, since I'm honored to be sharing a middle name with little Miss Tilly, I am making her a quilt. I had Mary go through my pinterest board for inspiration on what she wanted and because Mary loves all things western... mule rides, mountains, and cowboy boots... it was no surprise to me that she saw this feather quilt and loved it. The feathers make it look native american inspired, but they also look like pine trees to me... I think it's super sweet, for this girl who will grow up riding mules and wearing her own little cowboy boots.

Here's the beginning of some of the feathers... I'm doing each feather a different color for a whimsical rainbow look!

And here's some other fabric I couldn't resist buying... I love these western prints. They'll make a cute cowboy patch work quilt one day. For now I just like them stacked up and sitting beside me, so I can look over at them and give them a wink (because I have a crush on them).

Baby Zoe Quilt

I finally finished the binding on this quilt last night:

It's for baby Zoe, Amanda's neice. 

I used some of the scrap fabric from Adam's quilt on this one (the tree fabric),

that way the cousins have their quilts connecting a little.

September Quilt

I finally finished this quilt! It's been a work in progress since the end of the summer, and has been a thought in my head for almost a year when I ran into THIS QUILT on a blog I follow. Isn't it pretty? I fell in love with it so hard that I had to make my own rendition. 

I like the modern design on it, and I love the colors, they are perfect September colors.When I would go hiking in September I would look around at the colors of the leaves and trees and see this quilt. So this is the September quilt: 

 

quilts are cool and full of love.
 

I like this rectangle quilt show here, in a bedroom that belongs in my dream home:

(+++)

Bloc Party

Some blocks for a quilt to be pieced together one day.

I was in a purple/brown phase.

Dinosaur Baby Quilt

You guys, I made this quilt!

okay, well I sewed the quilt top together,
and the dewey clan tied it.
It's a dinosaur quilt for their dear friend's baby boy.
Max picked out the fabric, I think it turned out super sweet.

what little boy wouldn't want a dinosaur blankey?

Quilting

Laura totally beat me to blogging about the quilting class. The class was so much fun, I love the quilting community, and crazy quilting woman. Laura and I had so much fun hanging out at the quilting cottage. I think it's funny that we both took pictures of our blocks to post on our blogs. Here's mine-


Quilting is my new obsession. I thought about quilting all day long. Every time I walked into my bedroom and saw my block I got excited. I just wanted to keep working on it, and if I had a sewing machine that is what I would be doing right now. I am excited that I am on a sabbatical. More time to sew, bike, exercise and be creative. Hopefully one day I will be so good at quilting I'll be able to do my own patterns, and actually finish this idea I had over a year ago:


I think a desert scene would make the coolest quilt (see another sketch here).

Quilting just encompasses everything I love: math, color, fabric, creativity, precision, ironing... it's the perfect hobby.

Lines In Fabric

(we will be tying this soon)

 

One of my favorite household chores is ironing. I love the invigorating smells of clean laundry, and I love smoothing out wrinkles and adding crisp hot creases. I love lines. Pressed white sunday shirts, starched stiff collars, and the smell of fabric softener mixed with a good calogne is probably on my top 10 of reasons why I show up to church on Sunday.

Saturday I spent almost 9 straight hours with Laura sewing my quilt. One of my new favorite parts of quilting is ironing the back creases. The drafter in me can't get enough of the straight lines and how everything fits together. It's wonderful.

And I love the finished product. The fabrics all make me smile and look great together. My mom thinks the quilt looks like October, and I agree. But it will forever remind me of this awesome summer. And mostly hanging out with Laura in her basement bedroom, cutting out fabric, listening to hip hop, finding potato bugs crawling on my squares, eating pear quesadillas, and conversing.

What a charmed life we lead!

Sketches

I had this idea in class for a quilt I am going to make one day

it's a desert scene with cacti: